Tulare County Biographies

H. A. WOOLSEY

Transcribed by Kathy Sedler

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        In the late '50s Robert Woolsey left his native state of New York, made 
the voyage around Cape Horn and landed in California. He first located in Sancha 
Plana, then a booming mining town, but about a year later he went to Ione, where 
he became a merchant. He married Mary Atkinson, a native of Ohio. Besides H. A. 
Woolsey of this review, they had one son and two daughters, viz.: E. G. Woolsey, 
now a dentist of Ione; Emma, now Mrs. B. H. Ford ; and Mrs. May Gowett of 
Exeter. Robert Woolsey died in 1893 at the age of fifty-two years. His widow 
survived until November 7, 1924.
        H. A. Woolsey was born in Ione, California, March 12, 1883. He received 
a public school education and at the age of sixteen years went to work in a 
butcher shop, where he learned all the details of killing animals and marketing 
the products. For three and a half years he was in business for himself in Ione 
before coming to Exeter. In 1910 he came to Exeter and bought out the Waddell 
market, the business of which he has increased until it now amounts to one 
hundred and fifty thousand dollars annually. He owns and operates his own 
slaughterhouse, has a complete equipment in the way of refrigerators, etc., and 
employs ten persons.
        Mr. Woolsey was married on June 30, 1904, to Miss Nellie Harris of Ione, 
and they have two children : A son, named George, and a daughter, named Esther. 
Mrs. Woolsey died January 5, 1915. Mr. Woolsey is a republican in politics. 
Fraternally he is a Mason, and also belongs to the Exeter Chamber of Commerce 
and the Commercial Club.
 
Source:  History of Tulare County and Kings County, California � Kathleen 
Edwards Small & J. Larry Smith, Vol. II, Chicago, The S. J. Clarke Publishing 
Company, 1926., p. 276